Skirt-hanger.



No,754,763. PATENTEDMAR.15,19041 s. J. GOLDSMITH.

SKIRT HANGER.

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 27, 1903.

N0 MODEL.

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Patented March 15, 1904.

PATENT EEicE.

SAMUEL J. GOLDSMITH, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

SKIRT-HANGER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 754,763, dated March 15, 1904.

Application filed November 27 1903. Serial No. 182,776. (No model.)

To a whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, SAMUEL J. GOLDSMITH, a citizen of the United States, residing at Ohicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented new and useful Improvekind particularly serviceable in hanging dressskirts.

The article is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a side view. Fig. 2 is a crosssection.

Referring specifically to the drawings, the ordinary curved wooden cross or shoulder bar is indicated at 6, and an attachment added by me consists of a clamp comprising two springarms 7, preferably formed of wire, which fork or extend from a hook 8, to which the desired rigidity is given by twisting the wires. At the ends the arms have oppositely-disposed buttons 9, between which the skirt or other garment is clamped when the article is in use. The arms extend loosely through vertical openings 10, made in the middle of the wooden bar, and these holes converge slightly toward the top of the bar, so that when the arms are pulled up through the holes they are brought toward each other and when they are shoved down they are spread apart.

In use in hanging a skirt the ends of the cross-bar are inserted under the opposite sides of the waistband, and at the middle the waistband is brought up between the buttons 9. Then by pulling up on the hook 8 or equivalent, shoving down the bar, the arms and buttons are forced together, forming a clamp upon the skirt, which when the hanger is hung prevents the sag of the skirt in the middle,

ordinarily incident to hanging from two opposite points of the skirt-band.

The clamp is practically self-acting, inasmuch as if the skirt be placed between the arms thereof and the device hung on a nail by the hook the weight of the garment will pull the cross-bar down and bring the arms of the clamp together. To release the skirt from the clamp, the bar is shoved up, which spreads the arms and opens the clamp, so that the skirt may be removed. The hanger herein described will serve to keep skirts in shape, especially heavy ones. The device is capable of a variety of other uses. Thus, for instance, the bar may be used to support one garment and the clamp to support another.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A garment-hanger comprising a garmentsupporting cross-bar, and a clamp between the ends of the bar having arms extending through the middle of the bar and terminating in a hook above the same.

2. A garment-hanger comprising agarmentsupporting cross-bar having openings diverging downwardly through the middle thereof, and opposite clamp members between the ends of the bar and slidable through the openings and terminating in a hook above the same.

In testimony whereef I have signed my name to this specification in the presenceof two subscribing witnesses.

SAMUEL J. GOLDSMITH.

Witnesses:

SIGNA FELTSKOG, H. G. BATCI-IELOR. 

